Fmr AMD Chief: Why 3D Chips are the Future of Tech

4/25/2013 2:43PM

Hector Ruiz, former head of chip manufacturer AMD, joins digits to discuss how 3D chips will change tech, and why more visas for the industry is a bad idea. Plus, why he decided to battle industry behemoth Intel. Photo: Getty Images.

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I ... one in three D chips on the future all the tax welcome to Digits I'm Simon Constable ... and here with this is former chief of AMD that's Advanced Micro Devices is have to raise diesel for the ortho PLC's Lane show up to ... about the taking of anti ... anti taking on Intel periods thanks for being here so ... thanks em for that one was for us to talk about ... three D chips Warne's a three D chat ... well yes I think what's happening in the industry is this being the of people refer to as more cool ... or you can cram more and more stuff into it you ... can still skidded depend brick wall ... and you can get through it ... because the bid diminishing returns of putting functions and kept on working more for Number reasons ... which you have to do with physics ... but um ... some people fear at what I was all that in fact the ... in my view the only solution for the next twenty years so ... this could be to stem the spread amount to back him up ... and that is to create a three dimensional ... dinner connecting instead of calling this system on the chipmaking color the system in the queue ... and so things go off into three dimensions ... and and you have come at the circuit board in the app and this this is a table regular size the circuit board and and this will be the size of what a sweet t want ... to be right I think this is an Excel blow was possible some and this is the very typical memory board and the computer if you own a laptop you'll see ... that he's one of these has no more ... think what we did in an effort to try to show the potential is Tuesday even though this is not an actual tea that we think it's possible ... his with a bust chips than them up ... and stack them up ... and created this chronic ear which is the ... core replaces the board and you can see ... the tremendous sympathy has been size ... and all you can see how we would invite cost ... and and and this is just the beginning the real criticism of the more significant in a sense of ten for cost and ten times more powerful right and thus of processing that that one is quite a lot ... it's it's a paradigm shift that a lot of people are ... actually come as surprise then that when you go through through three dimensional aspect ... which we think is can a curtain of trust with for years ... you know you're not going to the tenth of the space of ten that the cost of ten for the power and ten times the performance ... see you get a lot for that and and and there's nothing that we know in the crisis ... that can accomplish ... turning out to two of the tech industry more generally ... um ... he told some people in the business and we've we need more tech Visa said one H1 B visas he said as wrongheaded one ... well I believe that the overload push is coming from Silicon Valley and my ... 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I think isn't awful system ... this is of a ... stunning amount to you for the SOX Lane show which I'm here it is handy supply to frame industry from the ruthless ripoff Intel ... you took on Intel you've you've you've you've one of ... the demand money ... from and what did you ... decide to take them on a reminds me of summer warning of me wanted to so to take on Mike Tyson in a fist fight ... well this are like this the time in this the America so the mood was testing the Sundance kid can ... go when Arroyo isn't going to go jump off the cliff you know one of things with ... one of them was worried about is that he did not to swim ... in the league as a way to know more about it because you know ... the flows brought in to kill you anyway ... up ... I think we have the long list of things to do to compete with until we have to get products with acknowledgment ... and after having gone to all done in coming out with a product that was so superior to an end to have by continued two thousand ... no is the author of family of consensus ... and not able to earn this year the week of what's fair for unity ... we got to the last thing we have to do which is when a student of Yelp established ... and level playing field ... I knew that her and her ... progress with with that thank you Brian much ... to ... the race for my auntie chief analyst of the